Galatians The Gospel  No Other Gospel Episode 21 Galatians 5:1-12 Consequences of Legalism Upon Our Freedom

Galatians 5:13-26 The Liberated Lifestyle of the Spirit-Guided Man Galatians 6:1-18 Christ’s Cross: The True Motive for Serving Pre-scheduled sick day Intro to __________

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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version by Crossway Bibles Freed for Freedom by Edward C. Wharton Commentaries on the Bible by James Burton Coffman Handwritten note on the back of the sick list by Mike Wall

“The freedom Christians have from the guilt of sin is by faith in the person and work of Christ Jesus. - Edward C. Wharton, Freed for Freedom

When that faith leads a sinner to renounce his life of sin and takes Jesus to be the Lord of his life and to be baptized into Christ, that person is justified, he is freed from sin (Romans 6:1-7) - Edward C. Wharton, Freed for Freedom Rom 6:1-4 (ESV) What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

When that faith leads a sinner to renounce his life of sin and takes Jesus to be the Lord of his life and to be baptized into Christ, that person is justified, he is freed from sin (Romans 6:1-7) - Edward C. Wharton, Freed for Freedom Rom 6:5-7 (ESV) For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.

And the Lord has freed him to remain free from the guilt of sin. But the ongoing nature of justification is conditional. It is conditional on keeping faith in Christ. - Edward C. Wharton, Freed for Freedom

Paul pleads with the Galatians, and us, not to return to the bondage of our sins again by yoking ourselves to any other person or system that takes faith out of Christ. The consequences are fatal. So even as we were set free from sin by an obedience of faith in Christ, we are to stand fast in our freedom from sin by a continual obedience of faith in Christ. Stand fast therefore. - Edward C. Wharton, Freed for Freedom

Gal 5:1 (ESV) For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Gal 5:5-6 (ESV) For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Gal 5:7 (ESV) You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Gal 5:8 (ESV) This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Gal 5:9 (ESV) A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Gal 5:10 (ESV) I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

Gal 5:11 (ESV) But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Gal 5:12 (ESV) I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

Gal 5:1 (ESV) For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. How did we come into freedom?

Gal 5:1 (ESV) For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. What do we have to do to receive ongoing justification by faith?

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Circumcision would obligate the Galatians to _______.

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Circumcision would obligate the Galatians to _______. Keeping the whole law would _____________.

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Circumcision would obligate the Galatians to _______. Keeping the whole law would _____________. If they were severed from Christ, they would ______.

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Circumcision would obligate the Galatians to _______. Keeping the whole law would _____________. If they were severed from Christ, they would ______. Would Christ be of any advantage to them at that point?

Gal 5:2-4 (ESV) Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Once saved always saved? Heb 3:12-14 (ESV) Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

Heb 3:12-14 (ESV) Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. What does “today” mean?

Heb 3:12-14 (ESV) Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. What does “today” mean? If we keep reading: Heb 3:15 (ESV) As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Heb 3:15 (ESV) As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Heb 3:15 recalls Heb 3:7-11 Heb 3:7-8 (ESV) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

Ps 95:7-11 (ESV) For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” Heb 3:7-11 paraphrases Psalm 95:7-11. Psalm 95:7-11 refers to the “Lost Generation” and their unbelief.

Ex 17:1-3 (ESV) All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” Heb 3:7-11 paraphrases Psalm 95:7-11. Psalm 95:7-11 refers to the “Lost Generation” and their unbelief.

Ex 17:4-6 (ESV) So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5 And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. Heb 3:7-11 paraphrases Psalm 95:7-11. Psalm 95:7-11 refers to the “Lost Generation” and their unbelief.

Ex 17:7 (ESV) And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” Heb 3:7-11 paraphrases Psalm 95:7-11. Psalm 95:7-11 refers to the “Lost Generation” and their unbelief.

Ps 95:7-11 (ESV) For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” Heb 3:7-11 paraphrases Psalm 95:7-11. Psalm 95:7-11 refers to the “Lost Generation” and their unbelief.

Heb 3:16 (ESV) For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? Continuing in Hebrews 3 … Tell me about the “Lost Generation”. How did they get to the wilderness?

Heb 3:16 (ESV) For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? Continuing in Hebrews 3 … Tell me about the “Lost Generation”. How did they get to the wilderness? What were some of their great fears and complaints in the wilderness? Num 11:4-6 (ESV) Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”

Heb 3:16 (ESV) For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? Tell me about the “Lost Generation”. Did they go with what “everybody” said? Num 13:31-33 (ESV) Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Heb 3:16 (ESV) For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? Tell me about the “Lost Generation”. Did they believe God?

Heb 3:17-19 (ESV) And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. Tell me about the “Lost Generation”. Did they believe God? How does this relate to us and the Gospel?

Heb 4:1-3 (ESV) Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? What is “His rest”?

Heb 4:4-5 (ESV) For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” How does this relate to us and the Gospel? What is “His rest”? Is the seventh day of creation still in progress?

Heb 4:6-8 (ESV) Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? If the Hebrews had trusted God’s plan, how long would it have been before they entered His rest?

Heb 4:6-8 (ESV) Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? If we have received the Good News, when should we enter His rest?

Heb 4:6-8 (KJV) Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. Why does the KJV use “Jesus” instead of “Joshua”?

Heb 4:9-11 (ESV) So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? If we have received the Good News, when should we enter His rest? Rest from what?

Heb 4:9-11 (ESV) So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? If we have received the Good News, when should we enter His rest? Rest from what? Works of the law. If we fail to enter His rest, we are ___________.

Heb 4:9-11 (ESV) So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. How does this relate to us and the Gospel? If we have received the Good News, when should we enter His rest? Rest from what? If we fail to enter His rest, we are _disobedient_. Can we have salvation without entering His rest?

Heb 3:12-14 (ESV) Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. What does “today” mean? Heb 3:7-8 (ESV) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Gal 5:5-6 (ESV) For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Gal 5:7 (ESV) You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Gal 5:8 (ESV) This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Gal 5:9 (ESV) A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Gal 5:10 (ESV) I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

Gal 5:11 (ESV) But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Gal 5:12 (ESV) I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!